PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 9

PERSONAL MATTERS

The .Prime' -Minister, arrived .in Christchurch last night, and this morning he received a deputation from the 'Ashley Biver Trust, says a Press. Association niessage ffoin Christchureh. He will afterwards attend a garden party at '' Meadowbank,'' Ellosmere,''. at .■which; presentations will be made to Sir Heaton and Lady Rhodes. He will also attend a.banquet at Leeston • tonight in hpnotix ;of Sir Iloaton. The . Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nosworthy);will return to Wellington probably .next Monday. Sir- J. R.-Sinclair arrived from the South to-day. - The>Hon. 'W. Earnshaw was a passenger by the Maori from Lyttolton today. The Hon." J. Craigio arrived from the South this inorniffg. Tho Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. B. M'llveney) returned to Wellington to-day from the South Island. Mr. W. Lowric, American ConsulGoneral,.is at present in Auckland. He will return to Wellington on Thursday. News has been received in Wellington of the death- this morning in Blenheim of Mr. Wiliiam. Pollard, sheepfarmer, of the Delta,' Marlborough. Mr. Pollard was well known as a public-spirited man. He took a great interest in the progress of Marlborough, and presented a park to the city of Blenheim. He also took a keen interest in the racing club, and was chairman of the Marltorough Patriotic Society, and an active member of the Marlborough Acclimatisation Society.